Instructions and file for setting up a basic JDBC connection from Java code.

Can you handle 99 bottles of beer... in your favorite programming language? Here's a fun little challenge to stir your technical and creative juices. Over 1437 variations and counting, including this version in FileMaker. How would you do it?

A new release of our free bBox FileMaker plug-in is now available.

Extend the reach of your Mac OS X-based FileMaker solutions to programs, code libraries, or OS functions that are normally outside your reach, including AppleScript, Shell scripts, Python and Ruby.

One of the most valuable aspects of this year’s FileMaker Developers Conference was a far-reaching discussion of the role of design in the FileMaker world. A broad range of speakers presented an exciting new view of design as an interactive process shared by developers and users alike. This new vision of design suggests several new possibilities and poses some intriguing questions for the FileMaker community.

How do you present rich text field data on a FileMaker layout, and allow users to scroll, select, and copy it, but not make changes? We recently had to do this, and found it more challenging than we'd expected. We discovered two very different ways to do this; both are flexible, lightweight, and will scale well as a solution grows over time.

FileMaker DevCon 2011 is just around the corner! Make the most out of your trip and see our Top 11 Tips for DevCon '11 attendees.

Seasoned and aspiring FileMaker ninjas will want to have this free utility in their tool belts. Syntax highlighting, code snippets, documentation, and even direct access to FileMaker's clipboard!

Got white space? Here is a FileMaker custom function that hides the portal scroll bar if there are no additional records to display. This is the first post in a series on building a different kind of FileMaker-based contact management solution that looks and behaves like the OS X Address Book.

Learn how to interact with files on your Mac from within FileMaker. Actually, just grab the functions from this demo and start doing it. No learning required!

Todd Geist and Jon Sindelar are releasing a new product called GoZync. It's essentially a push-pull framework for deploying mobile solutions, especially with FileMaker Go. Here's a recap of their recent presentation at the DIGFM FileMaker developer meetup.